GE Opportunity Squandered

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's inept handling of what should have been a productive negotiation with an outcome beneficial to General Electric, the state and several of its major constituencies points to one reason Americans are looking seriously at "outsider" candidates.

Malloy and his rusty Democratic machine couldn't see the transformative opportunity GE was offering when it opened the door to a discussion of the comapany's future. What Boston offered GE could have been, with some fresh, creative thinking, equalled or surpassed. A cooperative with the state's other industrial giants, its top-tier educational institutions and its leaders in the financial services fields could have given birth to a research and technology center of global import with GE at its core.

A no-brainer? Perhaps Donald Trump is right in his assessment of our current political leadership: They really are just "stupid."